Carnelian
@Carnelian@lemmy.world
- Comment on Ez gg 2 days ago:
I’m thinking we replace it with a 2,000 foot long AI generated portrait of obama performing lewd acts on trump, and then for the next 100 years we can have a news cycle about democrats wasting money whenever someone suggests restoring it to the original monument
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Usually if onions are making you cry it’s because your knife is too dull!
- Comment on Nvidia CEO: Society has no choice but to change. I used to play in the streets. When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the streets now 4 days ago:
It was tucked into a recent speech. I watched a timestamped linked. He really said it and it really sounded like he meant the sum of all people.
Defenders say that he was implicitly referring to people who are “computer users” or would be engaging with his company’s products or whatever. If true, I don’t know if that’s better lol
- Comment on Growth 5 days ago:
A clue to what? That some concepts take more than one second to explain?
- Comment on Nvidia CEO: Society has no choice but to change. I used to play in the streets. When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the streets now 5 days ago:
He also thinks there are one billion people on earth total. So between that and the invention of cars being in his memory, I think we can place him solidly in the mid 1800’s?
- Comment on If we take physicality out and the tran debate. Doesn't almost everything boil down to a single choice? Like alcohol, tobacco, weed, heroin and other addictives. More inside. 6 days ago:
Sorry so I mean, I literally just don’t know what you’re referring to exactly by “physicality and the tran debate” so that it can be taken out of the discussion. I guess from your reply just now that it has something to do with avoiding arguing about transgender people but I don’t see the relevance to the rest of your question.
Otherwise I hope I was able to respond to what you were asking!
- Comment on If we take physicality out and the tran debate. Doesn't almost everything boil down to a single choice? Like alcohol, tobacco, weed, heroin and other addictives. More inside. 6 days ago:
What’s the first sentence of your title mean?
But I think you’re asking, “Isn’t drug addiction ultimately the result of a personal choice since a person has to choose to try it in the first place?”
You could boil it down to that. Personally I chose to start smoking cigarettes at a point in my life when I was spending like 25 hours a week with people who would take smoke breaks outdoors every 45 minutes or so, and we’d use the outdoor time to discuss the project we were working on. In that instance in time it just felt like a natural thing to start smoking as well.
For me personally, I view at that as a personal choice I made (really several choices). Was fully educated about all the dangers and everything.
On the flip side, I feel like we can’t really entirely discount genetics right? Like there’s probably layers to it. Some people possibly would be enticed by the smell of smoke, for example. Plus there may be genetic predispositions to succumb to peer pressure, or marketing, etc.
Put it this way. I walk past a slot machine and hear the jingles and see the cheerful flashing lights, and I roll my eyes and forget about it. Someone else might see that and get totally captivated by the idea that they could change their life forever.
For me the “choice” not to gamble is super easy, but someone else might have a ton of difficulty making the same “choice” as me, and even if they succeed a hundred times it’s just constantly wearing them down until they eventually cave.
I don’t know what the full answer is. I personally find power in identifying that my addiction was a choice (that same power helped me quit! Clean for over 7 years now).
If someone else does or doesn’t feel the same way about their situation, it doesn’t really affect me, because either way I can still choose to treat them with compassion, understanding, and respect. I don’t really care if, when someone needs help, it was an uncontrollable act of nature or a mess they created for themselves or whatever. If they’re ready to get help, then I think we should help either way
- Comment on WOMEN. 1 week ago:
Me, offscreen to the right: internet argument smart
- Comment on Pride month 2 weeks ago:
I also don’t have sex with this guy’s wife
- Comment on It's like salting a slug 2 weeks ago:
Hatred against gay people absolutely exists in people who aren’t gay themselves
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I spent I think over ten hours just hanging out in Gerudo town in breath of the wild. I remember watching my “hero’s journey” thing and when I got there it was just stuck scribbling over the town for ever lol. Super chill vibes
- Comment on Why do I think music sounds better on my old MP3 player? 2 weeks ago:
Normalization is a legitimate, effective, and popular technique employed across the entire entertainment industry. Most well produced audio will have degrees of the effect applied tastefully.
I have no idea what youtube’s “normalization” is doing that ruins the quality of their audio to such a noticeable extent. It’s also totally indiscriminate of the video’s existing audio production. It sucks for someone to work hard and produce a good mix only for youtube to ruin it without your consent, possibly years after release
- Comment on Why do I think music sounds better on my old MP3 player? 2 weeks ago:
Could be the opposite as well, youtube a while ago rolled out a “normalization” thing by default that absolutely ruins all audio on the platform and needs to be disabled on every device you have. Supposedly it was set to automatically disable for music but that depends on the uploader
Spotify streams have always been garbage in my experience, but I haven’t had a subscription in about a decade now so no idea if that’s still true
- Comment on Interesting how if you live close to something famous like the pyramids or the NYC skyline you just take it for granted. 3 weeks ago:
Total vertigo. Just walking through the streets is surreal. You crane your head to try and make sense of it but the buildings just keep going.
Individual buildings in NYC have more people in them than at any given time than my entire hometown. By a large margin. Just so cool. I guess that was the main shock for me, the sheer sense of scale
Couldn’t believe how good the tap water tasted either haha
- Comment on Why are some things heavier than others? 4 weeks ago:
I’m on ten seconds of thought now and I am FREAKING OUT
- Comment on Most could work on anyone really 1 month ago:
You wouldn’t get it
- Comment on Banning from social media 1 month ago:
what the fuck do they have left?
Lots of things! Wellness farms, military readiness camps, factory labor. The possibilities are endless!
- Comment on Electricity explained 1 month ago:
The explanation makes a lot more sense if you already understand what is being explained
- Comment on this is wrong 1 month ago:
It’s hard to believe Skyrim is already 19 years old
- Comment on RAMANUJAN SPECIAL 2 months ago:
Thank you! It is a privilege and a joy to have made such a remarkable improvement to your life!
- Comment on RAMANUJAN SPECIAL 2 months ago:
Sadly the sum of all natural numbers is not actually -1/12. It’s a divergent sum. You could call it infinity.
There’s a little parlor trick that maths teachers like to perform where they do algebraic manipulation on a simple formula, eventually cancelling out the variables and arriving at some absurd statement like 1=2. The game is for the students to figure out what went wrong.
The trick is always that at some point, snuck into the progression, you ended up dividing something by “(X-X)” before moving on, seemingly without violating any algebraic rules. Very astute students (or ones who were warned by students from earlier classes haha) will notice that right at that point in time, you are in fact attempting to divide by zero, which is not possible.
So reason you ended up with 1=2 is because you applied rules to something which they definitionally cannot apply to. At that point, the equation became undefined.
…the funny thing though, is you were able to just…continue. And get something to come out. Now, in this case, that thing was utter nonsense. An amusement for children to help teach them of various pitfalls they might fall into when playing with numbers.
But what if you were one of the most brilliant mathematicians who ever lived, and you were concerning yourself with questions such as,
“What would happen if I took [1 + 2 + 3 + 4…. ], and subtracted [1 + 1/2 + 1/3 + 1/4 + 1/5]”
Now, those are both divergent sums. So we could just call them both infinity. But the second infinity just kind of…feels smaller, doesn’t it? It feels like you should be able to just…perform some type of operation and get…something to come out.
It wouldn’t be “correct” to do so, but this is basically what Ramanujan did. Illegal math. With a nonsense output of negative -1/12.
The funny thing though is that this “nonsense output” is actually now a cornerstone of quantum mechanics. It turns out we subtract diverging infinites from each other literally all the time, even just by walking around, and that pesky little -1/12 trick has proven to be consistently useful. Astonishing.
He died a preventable death at 32. Imagine what the world might have looked like today if only he could have dreamed a little longer, asked more impossible questions, and broken more rules. Specifically he died after a bout of dysentery, in case anyone is confused why they’re reading all this in the shit posting community
- Comment on I am darkness incarnate 2 months ago:
As the other commenter said, biking is cardio. It has many overlapping benefits with heavy circles (resistance training), but they each have some unique benefits and they grant you those benefits through different biological mechanisms. So doing one or the other is very good, and doing both is extremely good.
American heart association has a very good breakdown of the benefits of cardio. They recommend 150 minutes per week of moderate intensity cardio (biking slower than 10mph/16kph) or 75min per week of intense cardio (faster than 10mph) to fully cash in on those benefits.
On a personal note: before “taking the plunge” with any form of exercise, most people experience the same form of “temporal sticker shock” that you’ve expressed concern with. The “need to reserve time” for it.
It’s very deceptive though, because the short time you invest into it actually gives back so much more time to your life. Like multiple extra hours per day, every day, where you feel refreshed, energetic, and capable of pursuing your passions fully. It’s extremely worth the time you spend upfront
- Comment on I am darkness incarnate 2 months ago:
Heavy circles proven to reduce osteoporosis, sarcopenia, likelihood of falling in old age, likelihood of getting injured if you fall, metabolic syndrome, heart disease, and even depression. You can pretty much cash in all of these benefits in 2 hours per week flat
- Comment on Why do all night show hosts sit and have their desk to the left of the interviewee? 2 months ago:
Hey can we actually start spreading this around? I have this amazing mental image of some self proclaimed alpha male type trying to get on my right side to talk down to me but I just keep rotating in place so he ends up circling me like a little puppy
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Not vegan per se but I eat a block of tofu a day as well as another several servings of roasted edamame most days. Like 6-8 servings per day on average
- Comment on AI generated t-shirts... 2 months ago:
I hate when my stomach huarn surnog
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Yeah you’re probably right. I was just looking right above the highest point of the cat’s back where there’s a missing dot. In one image there’s four that form a square, in the other the bottom right dot is missing
Zooming in now tho it looks like the image with the darker cat is heavily compressed, so that particular dot probably just got lost in the process
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Different details on the back wall too. Very strange. Possibly at some point someone ran it through an AI filter to get it to look like their cat?
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 2 months ago:
So, two things,
which you can call AI if you want
This is from their official blog post, emphasis mine:
DLSS 5 is the GPT moment for graphics — blending hand-crafted rendering with generative AI to deliver a dramatic leap in visual realism while preserving the control artists need for creative expression
So, Nvidia themselves are the ones calling it AI
Second thing,
DLSS 5 is NOT replacing or altering the original graphical assets in the game with generated ones
I think they low key shot themselves in the foot with this particular comparison. The AI screenshot is actually from a frame (or however many frames) later in the scene. If you look closely you can see her mouth has actually opened slightly, and she appears to be in the process of rotating her head.
The end result is her lips are unquestionably larger in the AI image. Like if you bring the comparison slider directly to the middle, the bottom of her lip is lower while the top is higher. It has a pretty profound effect on the overall image.
Combine that with the hair highlights and makeup being so much more pronounced and the whole comparison is waaaay too similar to the “anti-feminism” filter thing that went viral in recent memory
- Comment on What the fuck is going on with Iran and what will happen next? 3 months ago:
Well, my assumption is that someday soon, all the people of the world will take a step back and realize that the endless cycle of war is ultimately meaningless; that the cruelty and suffering can end, and we can finally step forward into an era of compassion for one another